Tag Archives: DTT
Digital Transition – In Retrospect
Well, the US has begun its transition to digital terrestrial television. The transition has been messy in the corridors of power in the US simply because of concern about the disenfranchising of large numbers of the US population were simply not prepared. The mess is that now rather than the transition taking place on a [...]
I’ll take it all back BT Vision
It seems that BT Vision has grown in subscribers to levels that are respectable at last with 398,000 published today. However the detail in the press release behind the post by Broadband TV News is a little low. The understanding about whether these are 398,000 people with the box who may have subscribed once to [...]
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
Digital Transition Approaches
Quite famously, the US chose the big bang approach to the removal of Analogue Terrestrial transmission and its replacement with Digital, something completely different to the UK approach which takes place over a four year period. This was scheduled for February 17th 2009 several years ago, and it is rapidly approaching. However there is now [...]
Orange finally gets around to talking about it
Well after my post the other day about the distinct absence of a TV service launch from Orange, it seems that they have come clean and basically delayed the service. However the reasons pushed seem to not be very sensible except for the issue of pushing a new service in the midst of a recession. [...]
Orange TV in the UK
Today I had a reminder pop into my head about the launch of Orange’s IPTV service in the UK. It has been around in France for sometime and has been pre-announced during the latter part of 2007 particularly at IBC2007. That last thing I can find is from the IPTV Watch site. Now here we [...]